BWW Stage Mag Mouthfeel - Neurodivergent Plays Stage Mag

Mouthfeel

 
 
 
 
Written by Emma Howard
 
Directed by Camila Calderón
 
 
 
 
 
 

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ABOUT US

Founded in 2023 by autistic playwright and producer Anthony J. Piccione, Neurodivergent Plays - formerly known as the Neurodivergent New Play Series - is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting matinee readings on the 3rd Sunday of every month - with seasonal breaks in December, January, July, and August - of plays written entirely by neurodivergent and disabled playwrights (i.e autism, ADHD, dyslexia, OCD, Tourette syndrome, etc.) as part of a growing resident company of playwrights whose interests and specialties span a wide range of subjects, genres & structural approaches, with each play personally selected from a neuroinclusive resident company of directors. Learn more by visiting www.neurodivergentplays.com and following @neurodivergentplays on Instagram.

Cast

Carmy Mason Burbridge
Slab
Mary Fae
Yarl
Olivia Ray
Urdeen
Maddie Boudov
Receptionist/Waiter/General Service Worker/Window Washer/Mysterious Man
Jesse Hartley
Gordon the Ostrich

Creative Team

Emma Howard

Playwright

Camila Calderón

Director

Mia Rose

Ostrich Song Mixer

Isaac Popkin

Ostrich Poster Design

Meet the Company

Carmy Mason Burbridge

Slab
Carmy Mason Burbridge - Slab

Carmy Mason Burbridge (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor with a passion for developing new works! Carmy has recently performed with Serials NYC and Serials Stages, Eccentric Bear and Future Proof. His play Light at the End was a semi-finalist for The O'Neill's 2026 National Playwriting Conference. Their full-length plays have seen staged readings at Cherry Lane, Bechdel Project, and their own community garden plot. Their work has been produced in London by Deadweight Theatre Company and in New York at The Tank, and in festivals at The Chain, The Brick, and The Wild Project. Carmy’s mission is to use play to create meaningful representation by and for underrepresented communities and to bring stories into the light that have long sat in darkness.

Mary Fae

Yarl
Mary Fae - Yarl

Mary is a Brooklyn based writer and actor. You can find her memoirs and prose poetry on substack at mfae.substack.com. She has one blind cat and one cat who can see. Mary is currently studying for the LSAT. 

Olivia Ray

Urdeen
Olivia Ray - Urdeen

Olivia Ray (she/they) is an actor-playwright who graduated from NYU Tisch's Experimental Theater Wing in 2023. Selected credits include: Entomon (playwright), The Cabin by the Lake by Hannahjo Anderson (Olive, Script Club NYC), Love and Information by Caryl Churchill (director), Bakkhai by Euripides translated by Anne Carson (Chorus, PHTS), and Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison (Marjorie, ETW) Their work has also been published in Active Chapter's Edition 0: Confessions of Love and Monologues Against Confession. She would like to thank her number one supporter/antagonist: her cat, Benny.

Maddie Boudov

Receptionist/Waiter/General Service Worker/Window Washer/Mysterious Man
Maddie Boudov - Receptionist/Waiter/General Service Worker/Window Washer/Mysterious Man

Maddie Boudov (she/her) is an actor, dancer, director, and costume designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is an NYU Tisch Grad who is passionate about bringing play, freedom, and vigor to her work, especially in creating original work. Some recent stage credits include Training Set at Theater Row, The Tragedy of Mary, Martha, Lazarus at East Village Basement, and The Adventures of Orlando and Virginia with the Acting Company at the Public Theater. Follow along at maddieboudov.com and @maddie.boudov

Jesse Hartley

Gordon the Ostrich
Jesse Hartley - Gordon the Ostrich

Jesse Hartley is a NYC based Actor & Director focused on uplifting the pillars of community, diversity, and fun in every single thing he does. 

 

Originally from Catonsville Maryland, Jesse moved to NYC in 2022 with one dream in mind, “Be the trans man he longed to see on and off stage and screen.” Since then Jesse has succeeded in this goal in ways he could not even begin to comprehend including but not limited to playing Draco Malfoy in an all trans live reading of the Harry Potter Fanfiction, My Immortal, originating the roles of Kay in “The Devil & I” and Benny in “Miss Money Honey Bee”, producing a cabaret of Emo Music called “Emo Nite” at The Green Room 42, working as a Puppeteer at The Bronx Zoo (and then later transitioning into a day job in the admin department, making him the sole victim of the “Puppeteer to Admin Pipeline”) and developing/co-directing “Pillow Talk: A Play About Trans Sex” with his best friend Cory Sapienza. 

 

Above all else Jesse is here to uplift trans voices and tell trans stories.

Emma Howard

Playwright
Emma Howard - Playwright

Emma Howard is a writer and theatre artist from Maine. They got into playwriting while studying acting at the Experimental Theatre Wing where they took out a lot of student loans to roll around on the floor and create postmodern movement pieces. After college they spent time performing site-specific work in people’s kitchens before moving to Baltimore and working in public mental health, a formative experience from which they are still recovering. Relatedly, much of their work explores sexual violence, radical psychiatry, and the complicated ethics of desire—they often try to make these things funny, with varying degrees of success. This year they finished their playwriting MFA program at UC Riverside and moved to Los Angeles, where they can often be found taking clown classes at the Idiot Workshop or pacing around their Frogtown apartment that they share with four hundred ants. 

Camila Calderón

Director
Camila Calderón - Director

Camila is a Colombian-American director, fight choreographer, and actor based in Brooklyn. They live for making great art with even greater people. Find them on Insta @camila.calderon or online at camila-calderon.com 

Mia Rose

Ostrich Song Mixer

Isaac Popkin

Ostrich Poster Design

Tickets are on-sale now for our October and November readings

at Brooklyn Art Haus. RSVP today at

http://eventbrite.com/e/neurodivergent-plays-tickets-1980419719693

 

An Institution

Written by Dan Takacs

Directed by Jaye Hunt

October 18th, 2026 at 4pm

When a graduate student reports to her favorite professor that she has just witnessed a kiss between a teacher and a student, the faculty scrambles to control the damage. As the rumor circulates, the favorite professor discovers that she can use this situation to advance her career -- by selling out her student. In the end she must decide if a teacher has a higher responsibility to her students or herself.

 

Pieta

Written by Brynn N. Hambley

Directed by Ciara Berardi

November 15th, 2026 at 4pm

In a convent hospital in Venice, Italy, the best musicians in the region train under the tutelage of Antonio Vivaldi. Anna Maria, Sophie, Bettina, and Cattina were abandoned at birth, like all the residents, and trained to be world-class musicians. But they keep a secret from their adoring public--they are all disabled. Pieta is a story of identity, queerness, disability, friendship, and the lengths a woman might go to recover the agency that should’ve always been hers.

 

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